Class of 1936

The class notes for this month are being furiously scribbled in the assistant manager's office of the Royal Park Inn, Vero Beach, Fla., which, God willing, will open its front door to the public December 15. Honestly, honey, it's the most bee-utiful place; read what the folder says, "On everyside there are waving coconut palms andcultivated orchards .... gentle slopesand luxuriant forests .... while alwaysnearby the blue ocean foams upon goldensands."

But to get on to the news of the day. Al Doolittle is now connected with the American Bridge Co., Ambridge, Pa., as is Ad Ziegler. Bob Lake has supplied us with his address, which is Breezemont Park, Riverside, Conn., but for some reason has been secretive about "occupation" and "other items of interest." Frank Hight has recently moved to Alexandria, Va., living on the Mt. Vernon Memorial Highway, which has a nice historical flavor to it.

Charlie Nichols writes, "I gave up myjob at Williams in order to accept an offeras research assistant in biology at Harvard.I guess there are quite a few '36ers here invarious divisions of the University. I haverun into several who are at the law school,including Phil Gilbert, Fred Dailey, DickTucker, and a couple more that I can't remember. A few weeks ago I received a cardfrom Dick Harris, who has been spendingthe summer in Germany and having an excellent time. This summer I visited JoeMcDaniel and family for a couple of days.He was blessed with the arrival of a daughter about a year ago, a very cute youngster.I'm not familiar with class statistics, butperhaps he deserves credit for being fatherof the first class baby." Realizing that the class baby issue would have to be squarely faced sooner or later, your Secretary wrote the following letter to a class baby authority: "Dear Sir: What is the ruling on priority in the class baby contest? To be specific,does the baby have to be conceived aftergraduation or merely born after graduation?" The reply reads as follows: "It is afine point that you have raised about classbabies. The accepted rules (there is nothing'official') are that the class baby is the male offspring first born to a union that hasbeen made after graduation of the class.Graduates only are in the competition.Now as to the matter of conception of thechild, a delicate point, I refuse to bequoted. Could a couple be disqualified because they 'beat the gun"? I don't see how,for these things have a way of being difficult to prove." Therefore, this ruling would find Joe McDaniel and Mac Rowell disqualified, both having been married before graduation. Consequently, unless contrary evidence is presented, the nineteen thirty-six class baby award goes to John C. Parrish Jr., born on June 24, 1937.

With this question more or less settled, let's have a look at other news items. Harry Clark is working as a salesman for the Armstrong Packing Cos., Dallas, Texas. Al Bunker, who left Dartmouth after two years, is located with Lord & Taylor, New York, where in a few years he will no doubt run into section manager Bill Garrity '37.

While in New York City on our way south, we ran into Aldis Butler, Charlie Stern, and other Dartmouths of other classes. Aldis and Charlie are with GoodHousekeeping and Malhe's Advertising respectively. They reported that George McLeary was still traveling for Pictorial Review or some such outfit and recently has been making arrangements to let RailwayExpress in on the ground floor of one of his million dollar ideas.

Conny Wickham is now living in Chevy Chase, Md., and Roe Thompson is studying medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Hunt Sutherland is working for General Electric in Schenectady, and Joe Smith is living in Meriden, Conn., probably teaching.

Rog .Morse writes: "On August 17 theB. F. Goodrich Tire Company was kindenough to take me off the unemployed list.So far, I've been in Elizabeth, Paterson,Summit, Asbury Park, Newark, Montclair,Bayonne, and Jersey City. Monday I moveto North Bergen, where I expect to be permanently located. At the Y. M. C. A. atAsbury Park, I went into the 'can' to shave,and to my surprise was greeted by noneother than our fine friend, Shaw Carter,who works for the Bell system. TommyThompson is working for Haskins andSells and goes to night school once a week,preparing himself to be a C. P. A. JimFortune is shipping clerk at the WalkerManufacturing Co. in Clifton, N. J., andalso goes to night school in New York. Jimtells me that Dick Brierly works for the.Armstrong Co. in Lancaster, Pa. Out inMichigan, Chuck Delbridge is back atMichigan Law School, spending his timebehind law books and looking longingly atMichigan's fair sex."

Harvey Sevigny is working in Bar Harbor, Me., and Chuck Richards is located at the Wassaic State School. Bob Lewis is teaching at the Morgan School, Clinton, Conn. Bob Dickson is now living in Chicago, and Vic Gates is located in Albany.

Members of '36 would have gotten a kick out of seeing their Secretary sitting with nerve taut beside a radio in Vero Beach while McLeod ran through the whole Yale team. We thought we were pretty far from the scene of action until we heard that Dick Crosby would be tuning in from Syria seven hours after the final whistle had blown.

LETTER OF THE MONTH

The award this month is made to Dick Crosby, who writes entertainingly of teaching in Beirut, Syria: "I am here in the American University, teaching English to boys who are getting ready to go to the regular college. I have all kinds, types, and sizes of pupils. Their nationalities varythere are Persians, Arabs, Egyptians, Syrians, Greeks, Indians, and even a Zulu or two. The religious grouping is just as diversified. I have Bahais, Druses, Copts, Mennonites, Hindus, Zoroastrians, and Moslems—just to mention a few. (Editor's Note: After a few beers, the above names fall naturally into the following groupsBayers and Zoroasprins, Copts and Robbers, Druses and Fluses, Hindus and Hoodoos, Moslems, Poslems, Mennonites, and Womeninighties, not to mention Gipsy Rose Lee, Dr. Dafoe, and Nat Woodard, who were incognito.)

"In case I should find it boring to face English classes every day, they have given me a class in geography—7 th grade. These boys have had very little instruction in English. The result is, as you can well imagine, a bit confusing. Reduced to desperate measures the other day, I drew a map on the board. Pointing to what should have been Syria, I asked a boy what country it was. If you've ever heard Arabic spoken, you can imagine the result. It so happened that the next boy I called on was Indian—the result was worse. It was only after the greatest effort and intense application of ingenuity that I could get a brilliant boy to say, 'That is Syria.'

"I saw Clason Labert before I left home. He's working in New York with Liberty Mutual as a claim adjuster. He reports that Bryce McLellan is working in Brockton with his father in a hardware store, I believe. Ray Builter is working in an office in Bridgeport and is employed by an electric light company. Sam Morse is busy with his writing, and plans to attend Harvard this fall with a M.A. as the goal. Jack Sawyer has left Harvard Business and has a job with some new efficiency experts' firm on Wall St."

Secretary, Lynde Lane, Williamstown, Mass.